Chapter 718

It's sonorous.

Li Zitao knocked on the door of the house, and the sound of his feet gradually approached, but the tension in his heart was relaxed.

Although the people who are about to meet created a giant industry with less than 100 years in the future, they firmly control the cutting-edge technology of the industry.

But in terms of his achievements today, it seems that it is the other party that needs to look up to, not him.

The door opens.

First of all, the gray hair is introduced into the eyes. The face is well maintained. There is no wrinkle feeling after the skin sags and collapses. Instead, it is plump and ruddy.

"Charlie Lee." Thomas J. Watson, standing in the room, said with a smile.

"Thomas J. Watson." Li Zitao reached out and said with a smile, "the way you meet is impressive."

"I just hate trouble, there are a lot of people staring at IBM." Watson invited him in. Music was playing in the spacious room.

"How about some whisky?" Watson raised the magnetic needle of the gramophone, went to the wine cabinet, took out a bottle of wine without a trademark and asked.

"No problem." Let the body sink into the sofa to relax, Li Zitao cocked his legs to make a relaxed expression.

"Try it. I made it myself." Watson put the glass in front of him and sat on the opposite side, carefully tasting the whisky in his hand.

Li Zitao was not worried. He looked at the refrigerator beside him and thought about it. He went to the door and found the ice in it and put it in the cup.

"The moisture from the ice melts will destroy its purest taste, and its taste will be affected." Watson spoke, but said about the ice.

"Compared with the original taste, I like to choose what I like. After all, only if I like it can be regarded as the best, right?"

Li Zitao took a big drink and put down his glass. If he had a finger, he said.

"Looks like we're the same kind of people, Charlie... Heard you're interested in IBM?" Watson leaned back and said, "tell me, what can you do for it?"

"For the time being, IBM is not short of funds, contacts, IBM seems to be enough, knowledge... Sorry, I don't seem to understand."

Li Zitao seemed to be in self denial. He suddenly stopped and said, "how about creativity? Innovative ideas that enable IBM to create an era. "

IBM is not short of money and talents. Product innovation and quality are the key to IBM's success, and also the reason why it has achieved its present achievements.

But when it comes to creativity, who is better than his "back" from the 21st century?

"Talk about it." Watson looks at him suspiciously. Is creativity a punching machine?

"It's not worth it." Li Zitao shook his head.

Watson looked hesitant for a moment, then looked up and said, "if your creativity can move me, I can agree to whatever you want."

"Good." Watson's frankness was unexpected. He took the pen out of his pocket. Denny had brought the paper on the table.

"Watson, have you heard of analytical machines?" Li Zi Tao was writing and drawing on the paper, and asked without raising his head.

"You mean Charles Babbage, the English mathematician and inventor of the machine? I remember it's called a difference machine, and it's not an analysis machine.

IBM's existing computer punching machine is better than it, smaller in size and simpler in calculation. If you're talking about this, I don't think it's necessary to...

Watson's disappointment and contempt in his eyes are gradually disappearing. His eyes have been attracted by the mechanical instruments drawn by Li Zitao on the paper.

"What is this?" Looking at the square box on the paper, looking at the whole composed of dense pipelines, my heart felt inexplicably excited.

He had a hunch that this was the future of IBM, and although this feeling was strange, Watson has now put all his attention on the patterns on paper.

"I call it the electronic computer. Its basic principle comes from the analysis machine, which is an enhanced version of what you call the difference machine. Its maker is also Babbage

if you want to know more clearly, you can visit the Royal College Museum in London. Babbage put the failure prototype of that machine there for people to visit,

now let's talk about this electronic calculation In the original machine, each gear can store 10 numbers,

here is the relay. Now it is replaced by an electronic tube. Here... The information is recorded on the punch card and coded, and then the punch cards are connected in series,

written into a fixed calculation method, then whether the instruction can be formed, and It automatically performs arithmetic operations,

if you can make it have the function of logical calculation and data storage, think about Watson, what will IBM get? "

Lured by Li Zitao, Watson whispered instinctively: "the future..."

"yes, it is the future." Li Zitao slaps the table excitedly, and makes Watson, who is in deep thought, come back to his senses.

Looking at the young man with complicated complexion, Watson couldn't understand him."IBM's punching machine is very excellent, but it can't carry out more complex calculations. According to the requirements of gun ray and large laboratory, it takes at least one or two hundred people to cooperate with each other and take 40 days to complete the work.

however, it only takes one day to get the correct value."

When he said this, Li Zitao was actually guilty, because he was completely fooling, relying on the memory and graphics of the first generation of electronic computers in his mind.

"How can it be done? What's more, as you said, such a complicated calculation method is only needed by professional laboratories and the military. "

Watson rubbed the corners of his eyes to calm himself down, but he opened his squint eyes from time to time and peeked at the drawings on the table with his remaining light.

"This is a problem for scientists. If it has been studied and developed, IBM will be bankrupt now." Li Zitao's words made Watson's pupil contract.

When he realized that the other party was frightened by himself, Li Zitao chuckled to himself. "If Watson knew how big this thing was and how expensive it was to make one, he would have got up and left now."

Such as the first generation of electronic computers, it is impossible to popularize manufacturing, its role is only to assist large laboratories and the military to carry out accurate and fast calculation.

But just as its birth was inspired by the "analytical machine", the future of electronic computers is also born from the research and optimization of its principles.

From "adder" in the 16th century to "punch" in the 19th century, and then to the "difference machine."

Then came the more powerful "analytical machine." the concept of this machine is the conceptual basis of the future computer. There are only slight differences between the two, and they are very similar.

It is this small step, a small step forward, and finally the birth of electronic computers, until the popularity of computers and the arrival of the Internet era.

If there is no such a small step, a small step of progress, perhaps in the 21st century, human beings are still complacent about being in the steam age.

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